Sajid Ampatuan

Datu Sajid Islam Uy Ampatuan is a Filipino politician who served as governor of Maguindanao.

Datu
Sajid Ampatuan
Vice Mayor of Shariff Saydona Mustapha
Assumed office
June 30, 2022
Preceded byBai Zandria Ampatuan
Mayor of Shariff Saydona Mustapha
In office
June 30, 2019 – June 30, 2022
Succeeded bySajid Andre Ampatuan
7th Governor of Maguindanao
In office
2008 – November 2009
Preceded byAndal Ampatuan Sr.
Succeeded byBai Nariman Ambolodto (acting)
Vice Governor of Maguindanao
In office
June 30, 2004 – 2008
GovernorAndal Ampatuan Sr.
Personal details
Political partyNacionalista (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		United Nationalist Alliance (2015–2018)
Independent (2009–2015)
Lakas–Kampi–CMD (until 2009)
SpouseZandria Sinsuat
Parent

Career

Sajid Ampatuan was elected as vice governor of Maguindanao in the 2004 elections while his father Andal Ampatuan Sr. was elected as governor of the province. Ampatuan Sr. resigned in 2008 with Sajid succeeding him. Sajid Ampatuan himself vacated the office following the Maguindanao massacre on November 2009 in the municipality of Ampatuan.[1] He and his brothers Zaldy, Anwar and Andal Jr., and brother-in-law Akmad were implicated to the massacre and were detained. He was released on bail in March 2015[2] and acquitted in 2019.[3]

Tasked by his father to lead the "reunification" of the Ampatuan political clan, Sajid Ampatuan would run for the position of mayor of Shariff Aguak in the 2016 elections under the United Nationalist Alliance.[2] He lost his mayoral bid.[4]

In 2017, several corruption charges were filed against Sajid Ampatuan which is connected to his tenure as acting governor of Maguindanao from 2008 to 2009.[4]

He would get elected as vice mayor of Shariff Saydona Mustapha in the 2022 elections.[5] He ran under the Nacionalista Party.[6]

In October 2022, Ampatuan was sentenced to a maximum of 170 years of imprisonment by the Sandiganbayan for violations of the anti-graft and corrupt practices act and for malversation of public funds through falsification of public documents.[5]

In January 2023, he was convicted of the same charges in connection with several ghost road rehabilitation projects, with a prison sentence of 64–112 years in total. He was also ordered arrested by the Sandiganbayan for his failure to attend on the promulgation of the decision. Five engineers were also convicted of falsification charges as well.[7]

Personal life

Ampatuan is married to Bai Zandria Sinsuat, who served as mayor of Shariff Saydona Mustapha.[8]

References
  1. "General Information: Brief History of Maguindanao" (PDF). Ang Makabagong Maguindanao. Provincial Government of Maguindanao: 3.
  2. Cabrera, Ferdinandh B. (October 12, 2015). "Freed on bail, Sajid Ampatuan runs for mayor of Shariff Aguak". MindaNews. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  3. "Sajid Islam Ampatuan acquitted in Ampatuan massacre case". Rappler. December 19, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  4. Nonato, Vince F. (May 15, 2017). "Sajid Ampatuan faces 36 more charges over P16.3-M food scam". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  5. Sarmiento, Bong (October 11, 2022). "Sajid Ampatuan sentenced to 170 years maximum jail term for graft, malversation of public funds". MindaNews. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  6. "Profile: Datu Sajid Islam Ampatuan | Candidate For Vice-Mayor - 2022 Elections". Rappler. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  7. Reyes, Dempsey (January 14, 2023). "Ex-Maguindanao Gov. Ampatuan convicted of graft, falsification". Inquirer.net. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  8. Cabrera, Ferdinandh. "Sajid Ampatuan kin worried recent Maguindanao atrocities may be blamed on him". GMA News Online. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
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